Homs, Syria’s third city, is nicknamed the “cradle of the revolution”. It witnessed some of the fiercest battles of the 13-year civil war – the ... in the northwest before Assad’s ...

Mosques, hospitals, apartment buildings—it is often too hard to tell what this rubble was before ... Homs, most of Damascus had remained under total regime control throughout the Syrian civil war.

Syrians are once again picnicking and smoking shisha amid the ruins of ancient Palmyra, once desecrated by jihadists but ...

To slow the rebel advance, the Observatory said Assad's forces erected soil barriers on the highway north of Homs, Syria's third-largest city which lies just 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Hama ...

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president ...

We owe it to the civilians in Syria not to write them off before they start ... so familiar in this war. When it became too dark to write, Ali Diab invited me inside his home, he was joined ...

On Dec. 8, Syrian rebels entered Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 54-year rule and ostensibly the first phase of the Syrian Civil War. Beginning in the Spring of 2011 after a violent ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor says at least 1,800 people, overwhelmingly Alawites, have been detained in Homs city and the wider province. Across Syria, violence against ...

Syrian state media said a five-day security operation in Homs city ended Monday, with a war monitor reporting hundreds of arrests in sweeps mostly targeting neighbourhoods of ousted president Bashar ...

Before the war, almost all of Syria’s children were enrolled in school ... had made it to Damascus University. In phone calls home, Kishik said, Nadia told her that she was proud of her and ...